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# Acquiring a license for the workspace

### Purpose

During the Acquire licence operation, an area licence is retrieved from the Comsof Licence Server. Such a license is required to calculate a network design for the area that you have delineated in the workspace. If the area license was generated successfully, it provides the formal confirmation that the project on the Licence Server holds sufficient license credits to calculate a design with the requested number of demand points.

The input for the calculation of the area licence is supplied by the license request file, which was generated during the Validate operation and contains relevant data on the latest state of the design area and on the number of demand points in it.

At the end of the operation the licence file (`name.lic`) is transferred to the appropriate folder on the Network Manager Telecom server.

### Comsof License Server

Comsof Fiber uses a licensing model based on the principle of 1 credit for 1 demand point when calculating network designs. The entire administration regarding licenses and credits is centralized on the Comsof License Server. There IQGeo staff manages the umbrella license(s) a customer has purchased for a geographical area with the number of credits they represent, configure the projects for which credits can be taken and the users who have access to them. Once this configuration is successfully completed, the validation of an area license request and the generation of the area license goes basically without issues. If an error does occur, it is typically for projects that have been worked on for some time and for which the number of available credits is no longer sufficient for the calculation requested. In that case do not hesitate to contact your support contact at support@iqgeo.com.

### Executing the operation

To acquire a licence for a workspace:

1. Select the workspace via the Search bar or by clicking its polygon on the map.

   The Workspace panel opens in the Details tab sheet.

2. Click Open at the bottom of the panel.

   The Workspace dialog opens.

3. Tick the Acquire licence check box.

4. Click Run at the bottom of the dialog.

   The operation is submitted for execution.

   If the operation successfully completed:

   - The progress bar turns green with a little green check mark to the right of it.

   - If you have enabled the Show running process option, the information field turns green and marks "`Operations complete`".

   - The State label at the top of the dialog displays "`acquire_licence`".

   - A green check mark also appears next to the name of the operation along with a hyperlink to the Log data.

   - The Calculate check box is automatically ticked.